NRA: 'Armed Security' Needed for Every School

12/21/2012 12:36PM

The National Rifle Association, in its first public remarks since the Connecticut school shooting, proposed putting armed police officers in "every school in this nation." Aaron Zitner has details on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.

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I thought Congress today ... to act immediately ... to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation ... it is Friday December twenty per its first two thousand and twelve and seven days after twenty children six adults were shot and killed in a Connecticut elementary school the NRA is breaking the silence ... and calling for armed ... personnel in every school armed security personnel that is when ago right now Aaron is it now he's in Washington D C ... area this is a press conference held this morning with executive vice president of the NRA the National rifle Association ... a way not Pierre spoke ... basically ending speculation of that the NRA might be willing to go along with some provision ... of a new gun control all they're going to the opposite group saying they want armed security personnel ... in every school in America ... well we don't know the full extent of what the NRA ultimately ... will accept here as the discussion moves forward about ... the policy response to Newtown Connecticut where those kids were shot in ... the nation is still ... grieving people are still sorting through their feelings about what might be done ... what they said today ... and by the way one reason we don't know the full extent of what the NRA will agree to is because ... this was no press coverage it was a statement to the press ... in which they took no questions but what they put on the table ... was something that we hadn't heard from the likes of ... President Obama over the Democrats in Congress so far which is yes ... the answer to new town is to put armed guards in school ... the problem is and ... people having guns it's that bad people sometimes have guns ... and the only way to stop the bad guy with the gun ... is that the guy with the gun in what we need in the schools ... are good guys with guns with ... their little bit about the de tails of the problem that the NRA is putting forth a National school shield ... program ... on the call on Congress to pass this may talk a little bit about finding saying we don't expect Congress to facilitate by Mr. for funding to come from a local level but they fall they could find ... of local volunteers they mean something called watchdog ads in one community ... I've talked with a little bit about that ... well when ... he was saying is that there are things that Congress has failed to do that it was like to see you ... um this is why the conversation from the NRA ultimately ... will go beyond armed guards in schools a wave of the errors that second vice president of the NRA said hey ... Congress hasn't the ... background security checks ... well enough you know that should ... he talked about how ... people are mentally ill ... on Laurent adjudicated by a quarter to be mentally ill and in danger ... those records don't always get into the background check ... database that might be something the ultimately signed on to any fault in Congress for not funding a program to put armed police in schools in the call on Congress to fund ... a policeman in every school in the absence of that he said the NRA would start its own model ... schools shield program he called it which could come up with the way ... to ... to ... which would give school ... administrators ... I'm all for naught just ... how staff margins schools potentially using volunteers ... for school design ... up with ... a ... broader than just a ... the guns in what other ... mechanisms schools have ... a safety features on air in me and if this Avici and very tense and emotional issue for many people out there there were protesters ... five during this in RAZR speech of one person saying the NRA has blood on blood on its hands someone else calling for a ban on assault weapons ... are overlooking a sign right now if someone held up while ... Wayne Lapierre executive VP of the NRA was speaking are a killing our kids ... did get distracted all do you think from the message that the NRA and the proposal that the NRA ... was trying to get across ... well the media ... and TV cameras ... um focus on those kinds of things approaches protesters stands outside ... a bit of drama so yes those ... it doesn't help the NRA probably that someone is ... is stepping on their message to the contrary message ... well here was saying we are using guns aren't the problem and the prostitutes are saying ... yes guns are exactly ... the problem ... um ... again ... this was a ... this is a very strong statement from the NRA ... um ... the NRA pointed to violent video games he pointed to violent movies and not pointed to cultural factors pointed to the fact that ... I'm mentally ill or not time ... to the extent that they can be ... the records are not in the background check database ... but he really focused on the idea that ... don't let the media demonized guns guns are not the problem ... aam ... everyone has the right to have done ... to secure their own safety ... and why do we have armed guards ... at banks when the armed guards ... on ... in Congress and leave our most vulnerable citizens are children ... on or ...